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Article #260Re: Documentation on the OS/2 API?
From: David Charlap
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 19:38
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 19:38
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In article <sunshine.713023974@convex.convex.com> sunshine@convex.com (Roger Sunshine) writes: >Is there any online or printed documentation on the OS/2 API, available >without having to purchase CSET or any other software product? I'm >trying to learn OS/2 programming on a budget, and have ftp'd both the >gcc native OS/2 port and the emx port, but haven't made much progress >because I've no clue as to what the parameters to the various API >functions are (let alone what they mean). On line man page (a la un*x) >like documentation in the help system would have been great if they were >included with OS/2 (well, I haven't found any documentation of that >sort yet). The IBM toolkit ($79 from Programmer's Paradise, about $110 from IBM) contains (among other things) on-line API reference material in the form on .INF files (use the view.exe program to view them). It also contains the IBM-standard OS2.H header hierarchy, and many convenient utilities (like dialog box editor, an improved icon editor, and nmake.exe, to name a few). -- |) David Charlap "I don't even represent myself /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu sometimes so NJIT is right out!. ((|,) ~|~ Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340 From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: Documentation on the OS/2 API? Message-ID: <1992Aug5.193857.9256@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 5 Aug 92 19:38:57 GMT References: <sunshine.713023974@convex.convex.com> Sender: news@njit.edu Distribution: usa Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu